I'll certainly never buy Monster again. Of course, I'm running everything with generic HDMI cables (3 for $10 at Fry's, but you have to look in the computer section, not anywhere near the TV sets), speaker wire from Home Depot (12ga for $0.50/ft.), and other analog cables are Radio Shack's "Gold" line.

Amusement: for a friend's setup, we bought that bag 'o three HDMI cables. Turned out, one of them was defective, which manifested itself as white snow over the video feed. Replacing the cable solved the problem. I don't know the real defect rate with HDMI cables, but I don't buy any of these quality arguments that Monster et al. make. Either it works or it doesn't. It's digital.